PeteF3
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Nash comes out in a mask and I need the announcers to clue me in on who he's supposed to look like, because I can't tell. Nash makes no attempt to actually sound like Sid and this is unbelievably toothless--there are things you can make fun of Sid over, but all Nash does is say that Sid is dumb and talks about ruling the world. Russo is obsessed with "shooting," but when he has the chance to hit home with some inside-baseball (inside-softball?) remarks in a promo directed at Sid, he's inexplicably backing off. Hall guffaws over Sid's blown line, and why not? -
Heatless overbooked clusterfuck of a finish. Not only do they welch on Austin being there, they welch on Vince being the guest referee (except for the last ten seconds of the match). Storyline-wise, it makes no sense for Shane to give Big Show this spot and not Test. And even booking-wise, Test was probably in a better spot on the card.
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The finish is set up by Kat distracting the referee and Chyna low-blowing Jericho...I mean, it's almost like they were consciously booking this for the crowd to take Jericho's side. I never saw RSPW melt down as much as it did over the result of this match. And why not--19 years later it still stinks.
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Styles says that Raven will inevitably DDT Dreamer after helping him out, so of course that doesn't happen. Sandman isn't impressed by Raven doing the right thing so he canes him into oblivion as Dreamer tries to pull him off. Don't tell me Tommy is developing a conscience for protecting Raven now.
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"Four of the longest months of my life." Jesus, is Terry talking about his feud with Dundee or his fucking promos? I'm glad to see others coming around on Golden--his previous long promo was terrible and this is just as bad. KAW isn't about selling tickets--holy shit, Golden manages to drop a truth bomb in the midst of this blithering. "This ain't a work, this ain't an angle, this is a shoot, this is real." Fuck off. "Buy a ticket and come see our show," a minute after telling us KAW wasn't about selling tickets...every time I want to wrap up my comments, Golden drops another nugget for us.
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Pretty bad finish and that's a rather laughable finisher for Casey. I know part of Cornette's job is to prepare guys for Pat Patterson specials in the WWF where they'll encounter these types of sports-entertainment-y match layouts, but I feel like he's overthinking things with these guys and asking them to do stuff outside of their comfort zone or expertise level. This isn't Smoky Mountain which is mostly veterans who can just go out and either do what Cornette asks on cue or come up with/improvise their own shit.
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Yeah, I'm not sure every single last OVW match needs a run-in or multiple run-ins. Somehow even though MNW-era wrestling is all about the run-in, Cornette's booking still seems a little dated. I enjoyed former Louisville police officer Dean Hill macing Buchanan after the match to make sure he was properly carted off to jail.
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Take a drink every time Arnold says "unbelievable." I'm not sure why HHH isn't disqualified for clobbering Hebner, but the match is fun and feels big-time with Arnold's presence at ringside. The post-match is a good use of him, too. Maybe HHH doesn't become a top guy for 5 years if this pattern continues, but man, the WWF sure seems more fun when HHH is regularly getting his ass kicked in-between getting heat, isn't it?
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To which Angle just sort of stared at him. "Riiight." The giant megaphone on top of the car is the real pièce de résistance here. I forgot about him propositioning the Big Show's mother, too. He hits Show with a car, sending the funeralgoers over to tend to him and allowing Boss Man to "make his Daddy a drag queen." This is so over-the-top that it becomes a sort of high art.
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An outrageous and shocking expose...David Arquette played football??! He and Scott Caan execute the moves pretty nicely, though. Rose McGowan plays a Nitro Girl (!!!). It's not like she was an unknown at this point, what the fuck was she doing in this movie? Is this a step up from or below Bio-Dome?
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Whether it's recency bias or not, this might be my favorite BattlArts match of the year. Murakami was a revelation, already showing flashes of his vicious personality but unleashing some killer strikes and suplexes, and bumps. This is pretty much a straight southern/puroresu tag with the only real shoot elements being the submissions and KO attempts, and it's as glorious as it sounds.
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For the record I have just WWE Network and NJPW World at the moment (but also a multitude of DVDs, mostly from the '90s and before). I'm willing to shell out for a month's or a show's worth of product for a certain match, though.
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I'm on board with this.
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Takada sort of resembles that remark as well, at least here.
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But the concussion issue wasn't there at all in 2001 either. The "hard-nosed, old-style football" pitch didn't work then (because people actually want to see offense and scoring, not three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust football in the trenches), but combine that with the fact that players aren't expected to play through pain and certainly not through concussions anymore and this is going to be a tougher sell than before.